Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
New American Standard Bible
By your forsaking the Lord your God
When He
King James Version
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Holman Bible
by abandoning the Lord your God
while He was leading you along the way?
International Standard Version
You have done this to yourselves, have you not, by forsaking the LORD your God, when he is the one who led you on the way?
A Conservative Version
Have thou not procured this to thyself, in that thou have forsaken LORD thy God when he led thee by the way?
American Standard Version
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Amplified
“Have you not brought this on yourself
By abandoning (rejecting) the Lord your God
When He led you in the way?
Darby Translation
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou not do this to thyself? thou didst forsake Jehovah thy God in the time of thy being led in the way.
King James 2000
Have you not brought this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Did you not do this to yourself, [by] forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way?
Modern King James verseion
Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Cometh not this unto thee, because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, ever since he led thee by the way?
NET Bible
You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.
New Heart English Bible
"Haven't you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
The Emphasized Bible
Is not this what thou wast certain to do for thyself, - in that thou didst forsake Yahweh thy God, when he was leading thee by the way?
Webster
Hast thou not procured this to thyself in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
World English Bible
"Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
Youngs Literal Translation
Dost thou not do this to thyself? By thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?
Interlinear
`azab
'elohiym
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Consequences Of Apostasy
16 Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you. 17 Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way? 18 And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:18
Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
Leviticus 26:15-46
And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
Numbers 32:23
But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.
Deuteronomy 32:10
He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
Deuteronomy 32:19
And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.
2 Chronicles 7:19-20
But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:
Job 4:8
What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
Psalm 77:20
You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78:53-54
He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.
Psalm 107:7
Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.
Psalm 136:16
To him who took his people through the waste land: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Isaiah 1:4
O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.
Isaiah 63:11-14
Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
Jeremiah 2:19
The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Hosea 13:9
I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?